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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1889
Page
3
The Register notes Brazil boasted of receiving 131,000 new migrants last year. It reports Maine fisheries declining, 28,663 American Indian church members, and 187,500 California homesteads of 160 acres awaiting claims. It cites U S machinery space, missions giving, and copper cent stock.
The sketch notes General Simon Cameron dies at his country home Donegal Springs Pennsylvania after a short illness in his ninety first year. Life ended around six o clock after a rapid decline with relatives and physicians at his bedside. An answer from Staater Don Cameron in Scotland reached him earlier that day.
The Courier-Journal notes Missouri lawmakers passed a bill during the recent session prohibiting the marriage of first cousins and declaring such unions absolutely void, while predicting high sugar prices but cheap biscuits this year.
The Government printing office in Washington has not yet produced the census statistics in book form. The Somerville Journal notes that many people avoid the young lawyer who knows too much about the law. Rye is the bread grain of eastern and central Europe with Russia producing far more rye and wheat combined than the United States.
Egypt uses 2500 convicts on public works at low cost. Dr Grook Shank, Director General of Prisons, plans to employ 4000 more inmates profitably once projects are completed.
A Chicago woman asks the courts to stop a money shark charging forty five percent interest on a loan secured by four chattel mortgages. The Atlanta Constitution notes that in Cincinnati poor women pay as much as 120 percent without complaint.
In Iialine County a man sowed wheat on the same land for three dry years without yield. A few years later the crop revived and he harvested immense wheat for three consecutive years without plowing or sowing, according to the chronicler.
The municipality outlines a new epilepsy establishment near Berlin at Bisdorf intended to hold 700 patients, possibly enlarged to 1000, with a central building, cottages, and attached ample grounds including a farm and gardens around each cottage.
The article warns that the kangaroo may be driven to extinction as hides fetch high prices. Many young kangaroos are killed, and authorities fear Australians will soon see the last specimen unless the slaughter ends.
The Dunkards at Harrisonburg Virginia voted sweeping reforms. Members offending by wearing gold watches face expulsion and tobacco users are barred from standing committees. Chile offers 4000 American gold to the flour milling machinery winner in Santiago in November, hoping to boost trade. A Boston electrical worker shocked by 1800 volts survived.
The article reviews Simon Cameron’s life from Lancaster County birth through printing, banking, railroads, and state service. It covers Senate terms, War Secretary tenure under Lincoln, Russia mission, and later roles, noting his death at ninety-one and family milestones. It highlights his farm hospitality and civic honors from Pennsylvania.
A triple freight train collision near Latrobe Pennsylvania on the Pennsylvania Railroad at 0:30 AM left many wrecked cars and likely thirty to forty men dead. Bodies of four tramps were recovered. vast debris and fire hinder rescue.
A druggist named Alexander accidentally contaminates sugar of lead into a tub of tuba causing a large picnic party to fall ill. Fifty victims suffer immediate effects with several young women fainting while awaiting medical aid. The incident echoes a broader report from Canada and mentions a high number of affected individuals and subsequent recoveries.
A collection of brief notices details multiple homicides and suicides across cities including Philadelphia Dallas and Holyoke. Cases mention Granae McCann Lizzie Trexnian Water Haske and Tonis Lange among others with deaths by hatchet stabbing shooting and poison. The report also notes the Seventh National Convention of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor in Hartford and college rowing results with Harvard Yale and Penn in New London.
Reports detail a first degree murder conviction of Tom Woolfolk in Atlanta, U S troops sent to Montana to quell Indian disturbances, a blaze destroying the W L Harrison steamer near Ventura, and the Pioneer Tannery fire in Benicia with large losses. The Eureka Improvement Company faces a crippling Northwest failure in St Paul, while Camp 20 is dissolved after Cronin murder links. A Crosked BayouArk railroad crash injures several. a jail release leads to a suspect’s arrest in Chicago. A Denver brewing plant sale to an English syndicate. a Wisconsin postmistress involved in a fatal assault. Tragically, Missouri and Ohio drownings and fatalities occur among youths and a wheat-bin accident claims two boys in Ohio and Des Moines river drownings claim two more.
Treasury auditor discharged as Washington voices new Navy and Pension Bureau actions. Tracy grants Charleston builders four month extension for faulty plans. Tanner travels to Ottawa and Crete for speeches. Navy chief of equipment relieved. Hest to command Bari. Admiral Greer tapped for board on drill and tactics. Tracy orders reorganized Navy Department bureaus with new duties.
The English Royal Yacht Squadron in London adopted a resolution denying the new deed of gift for the America Cup ending the Valkyrie contest. LeNon MACLIS killed his wife then died by suicide in Ensenada. Eneuann clashed with Portugal in Africa and France in Egypt. Hamburg warehouses of Tiegen Revertson burned, losses about 500000 dollars.
Six persons found dead from gas asphyxiation at No 59 Water Street Paterson New Jersey. In the lower floor apartment housed by John Godfrey an elderly silk weaver, four women and two men perished from a gas leak likely from an uncapped stove valve. Godfrey and a second unidentified man were found in the rear room. Mrs Seiferth upstairs reported no odor of gas and alerted police.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Whiteling, 43, hanged in Philadelphia for poisoning her husband and two children to gain life insurance. She faced execution at 10:07 a.m., the first woman hanged there, after a 34 minute struggle. Authorities found arsenic in all three bodies and she confessed after initial denial.
On October 19, 1885, in Carenogin, McClure and Flanagan were targeted on a road to Miners Mills with 720,000. Rizello, Bevirone, and Vellalli ambushed them. Rizello shot Flanagan and Rizello fatally wounded McClure while Vellalli killed the horse. The trio then fled with the loot to Mike’s cabin, evading Pinkertons as detectives later coerced Rizello into a confession. Mike was later tried and convicted in 1889 with Luzerne County’s defense backing him.
A jumble of notes recalls Bou LanGen’s quiet spell, Will Mas born 1819, Jay GovwLto visiting the Paris Exhibition, General Lew Wallace at sixty three, President Harrison fond of yachting, Henry Grong visiting Australia, Emprron William planning Norway trip, Mr Grapstone painter of portraits, Tow Nast resuming cartoon work, a Chief Justice Fuller’s daughter studying law, M Errie descendant of William Tell, Berrace Bite rising in France, the Vinderbilts’ philanthropy, Princeton and Miami granting Harrison LL D, Sim Junian Pauncerurs a cigarette smoker, Lieut Powell in debt, Gen John C Fremont at 78, George Vanderbilt buying land in North Carolina, Joan W Barpsler died in Philadelphia, Siberian exile punishment, Cleveland fortune at 200000, Villard’s recovery, Tippoo Tib allied with Stanley, Duke and Duchess of Portland to visit US, Epwamp McGunceis Jr youngest West Point graduate, Amaker, Field, Armour wealth and tenure at University of Pennsylvania.
The President appointed William Walter Phelps of New Jersey as United States Minister to Germany, succeeding George H. Pendleton. Born in 1830 in New York, Phelps studied at Yale and Columbia Law School, built a law career, and held political office in New Jersey. He aspired to the Senate, viewing it as his ultimate goal.
Maria Mitchell the astronomer and Carlotta Patti the singer are reported dead. Mitchell died at 6:30 am at the residence of Mrs. Benjamin H. Currier in Lynn Massachusetts after a long brain disease. She was born in Nantucket and daughter of William Mitchell. Her early work aided her father and she made significant astronomical discoveries including comets and nebulae. She received a Danish gold medal and later taught astronomy at Vassar College.
Carlotta Patti de Munelt died in Paris at age forty nine daughter of Salvatore Patti and Sisi ora Garili sister of Adelina Patti was famed soprano with talent limited by physical ailment. Her career included world renown concert work and attempts at opera which were hindered by deafness and lameness. In 187 she married Ernst de Munck a renowned violinist.
A seven member rowing party on the Hudson near Albany was struck by the tug Evelyn causing six deaths and one survivor Joseph Cole who was playing the accordion. The victims include Edward Cole Maud Horner Mary Hennessy John Mattimore Mae Heese and others. The incident occurred as the boat neared the lumber district islands. The tug Evelyn owned by Clinton Robinson of Troy claims limited visibility.
A street riot in Glasgow Missouri between two factions involved about twenty people. John Patton attacked Louis Watts with a knife, Watts fired with a revolver, Patton was killed and Watts mortally wounded. Six others injured before sheriff deputies subdued the scene and arrests followed. The report also notes widespread panic over bucket shops in New York.
A broad roundup reports Harvand defeating rivals in a four mile Thames race, a Philadelphia businessman fleeing after a missing funds report, a Standard Oil oil deal in New York, a Chicago block fire, and Montana forest fires. It notes university commencements, deaths by sewer gas, a Cape May departure, a Minnesota storm, ship losses, the Hayes funeral, and multiple federal appointments and diplomatic moves amid global unrest.
A post flood fire in Johnstown Cambria following the watershed flood burned about twenty five houses and a large brick schoolhouse near Market Walnut streets. Militia and local firemen battled shifting flames driven by wind. three remaining houses were destroyed and debris cleared as relief efforts began.
Mrs Lucy Webb Hayes widow of Rutherford B Hayes died at her Fremont Ohio home after a paralytic illness lasting over ten days. Born 1851 in Chillicothe Ohio she was the youngest child of Dr John Webb and Maria Cook. Her life included wartime service aiding wounded soldiers and extensive charitable work with Ohio organizations and the Woman's Relief Corps. She accompanied her husband to Washington and White House life, later active in church and civic groups until her death.
A fragmented market list shows assorted goods with regional notes. Wheat and corn prices appear for multiple areas, including No. 2 red and No. B yellow, alongside oats, barley, rye, and mixed grains. Dairy items list butter, cheese, eggs, and creamery products with regional facilities noted.
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